On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood

by Mohan Parasain

Overview

This book offers an original intersection of concepts from Immanuel Kant's moral command ethics and Sören Kierkegaards existential ethics. The former moral law is based on theoretical ground while the latter's quest for selfhood views it as the very act of living. This work questions whether these approaches to morality are mutually exclusionary and advocates the traversing of the ethical parallax to allow for intellectual openness and an empathetic perception of theother.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367177270
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/25/2019
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mohan Parasain is an independent researcher based in New Delhi and is currently with the Union Legislature of India. He completed his PhD in Philosophy from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and MA and BA in Philosophy from the University of Pune and Gauhati University, Assam, India respectively. He taught philosophy in colleges affiliated to Gauhati University before joining the Parliament of India in 2004. His interests are ethics, political philosophy, classical and continental philosophy, philosophy of law and legislation. He occasionally writes poetry and is presently working on a book on ethics in governance.

Table of Contents

Foreword S.P. Singh. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Moral Imperative and Kant‘s Critical Philosophy 2. Kierkegaard and the Quest for Selfhood 3. Dialogue of Perspectives: Nietzsche, Kant, Kierkegaard, Bhagavad-Gita 4. Issues in Perspectives 5. Freedom in Framework 6. Traversing the Ethical Parallax. Bibliography. Index